Improvement in grain-cradles



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEQ ,'JOHN LEIDY, OF LAMAR, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEIVI ENT IN GR'lN-CRADLES.

To all whom itlmay concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN LEIDY, of Lamar township, in the county ot' Clinton and State Of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and lmproved Mode Ot' Securing, Bracing, and Moving the Fingers of GrainOradles5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description' thereof, reference being had t0 the accompanying drawing, said drawing being a view Ot a grain-cradle with my improvements attached.

The nature of my invention consists in a new method of bracing and securing the iingers Ot' grain-cradles, so that they may be readily and quickly adjusted at any angle desired.

In the drawing, A is a movable metallic plate, to which the fingers of theferadle are united by means of rods B and screws C, the

rods serving to brace and keep the fingers in position. D is a shank attached firmly to plate A, and, passing through a slot; in the seythesnath, is held rinly therein by means of a thumb-screw, E. Thewhole being thus combined and operating together, the iingers are moved. and held in place by simply shoving the shank back or forth in the slot.in thev JOHN LELDY.'

Witnesses:

MATTHEW BROWN, vJOHN W. HAsLET. 

